Question follow-through · 50129
Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has consulted with (a) local authorities and (b) planning professional bodies on the proposed delegation reforms in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Planning: Local Government · 7 May 2025
- Housing: Construction · 17 Jun 2025
- Waste Disposal: Birmingham · 26 Jun 2025
- Affordable Housing: Construction · 26 Jun 2025
- Affordable Housing: West Midlands · 26 Jun 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has consulted with (a) local authorities and (b) planning professional bodies on the proposed delegation reforms in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
On 13 February 2025, the government published a Planning Committees Planning Reform Working Paper inviting views on models for a national scheme of delegation, which the government has committed to introduce to support better decision making in the planni...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Planning: Local Government
7 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she had made of the potential impact of a new national scheme of delegation in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on local democratic oversight.
Housing: Construction
17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with UK brick manufacturers on meeting the demand for new homes.
Waste Disposal: Birmingham
26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many meetings Ministers in her Department have had with (a) Birmingham City Council and (b) Unite since the start of the waste collection industrial dispute in Birmingham.
Affordable Housing: Construction
26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps is she taking to encourage the development of affordable homes on brownfield sites.
Affordable Housing: West Midlands
26 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much and what proportion of the funding announced for the 10-year Affordable Homes Programme at the Spending Review 2025 will be spent in the West Midlands.
Housing: Construction
3 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60503 on Housing: Construction, what steps her Department is taking to (a) monitor and (b) prevent future cost pressures on mat
Housing: Construction
7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60503 on Housing: Construction, what the cost components are of the stability of energy costs in manufacturing.
Waste Disposal: Birmingham
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 62956 on Waste Disposal: Birmingham, when Ministers in her Department last met with the Leader of Birmingham City Council to dis
Neighbourhood Plans
8 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to increase the role of neighbourhood plans in the planning process.
Neighbourhood Plans
9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that developers take account of adopted neighbourhood plans.
Neighbourhood Plans
9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of neighbourhood planning policies in involving local communities in the planning process.
Recreation Spaces: Caravan Sites
9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of current measures to protect public green spaces from (a) unauthorised encampments and (b) environmental damage.